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United States Navy Electrician's Mate attaches pigs to flagpoles in Noumea, France during World War II.

Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper (YMS) sweeps water off mines in Noumea, France during World War II. A LCM (mechanized landing craft) along side YMS (Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper). Pigs in well deck of the LCM. Two Electricians Mates attach pigs to flag poles. On of them puts a bolt into the base of the pig to hold the flag pole. Electrician's Mate puts flagpole in the base of a pig and ties a string to it. Three pigs afloat in water. Two men wearing life jackets and helmets drop an anchor and then a pig into the sea. Mines explode on the water surface. YMS shoots at the mines. Electrician's Mate put pigs over the side of the vessel. Men fire 3 inch gun aboard the YMS and an explosion occurs in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049212
Empty port of Cherbourg France during World War II.

Port of Cherbourg, France, completely devoid of ships or boats during World War 2. Views of the waterfront and related harbor facilities. Some derelict barges near damaged piers. Railway at the port. Buildings in background. People walking along Twisted metal and rails. What appears to be a working factory in the distance.

Date: 1944, June 27
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049235
Allied soldiers search a German prisoner in Cherbourg, France during World War II.

Port of Cherbourg, France, during World War 2. U.S. soldiers in a jeep. Practically deserted cobblestone street in the city. rail tracks in the street. Raised barriers at intersection in road. Several U.S. soldiers seen. A Frenchman with his belongings, sleeping on the sidewalk. Telegraph office. Some residents walking along road with their dog. A U.S. soldier searching a German prisoner of war. Damaged port facilities.

Date: 1944, June 27
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049236
People gather at Place Charles De Gaulle in Paris, France during World War II.

French civilians gathered outside a building in Paris, France. A sign on a pole reads 'Place Charles de Gaulle'. Dignitaries shake hands. Civilians stand around them.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049245
French Resistance Forces fight against Nazi forces in the battle of Paris, France, during World War II.

Battle for Paris during World War 2. Eiffel Tower in Paris. View of the city. Street signs in German. Nazi flags flying from buildings. Women in an apartment fastening FFI (French Forces of Interior) armbands on each other. Men checking their small arms and hand grenades. Outside, men of the FFI camouflage automobiles they've acquired. Aerial view of the Ile de France in the Seine river, and closeup of armed FFI forces taking up positions along the river. FFI members firing at German troops. Several of the Resistance fighters firing at police headquarters, from behind a granite barrier. Dead and wounded German soldiers. Fallen FFI fighters. French resistance fighters seize a German artillery piece. Others with captured German arms. An old man and woman seen looking down from their apartment window. Wounded and captured German officers and soldiers leaving the Police Headquarters building, after being subject to direct fire by captured artillery. Resistance forces gathered with captured German Swastika flag, which one of them presents to the leader of the French Resistance, Gorges Rene Tanguy (aka Colonel Roy-Tanguy). Next, a car drives into the FFI-held Police headquarters, carrying the ex-Prefect of Corsica, Charles Luizet, sent by General Charles de Gaulle to assume command of the Paris Police forces. Uniformed French police are seen in a formation, next to a group of FFI members. Luizet and Tanguy walk together informally inspecting the two groups. Luizet speaks to those assembled, extolling their efforts. Next, a poster calls for volunteers to build defenses. Parisians, using pick axes, dig up paving stones and cart them off to build barricades. Women placing the stones on barricades. Men moving sand bags on carts. Boys helping men to build barricades. Frenchmen checking their weapons. Inside resistance headquarters, women and men, oftain information about disposition and status of German units and about approaching Allied forces. The Notre Dame cathedral viewed from a window of the Resistance headquarters. French police in position with weapons ready. German tanks moving near the Hotel de Ville. A Resistance bugler sounds call to arms. German Panzer I tanks on the streets and passing barricades. Parisians fell a tree as a tank deterent. Closeup of Notre dame facade from Resistance defense position. German snipers on Cathedral roof fire at FFI running across the square. Many scenes of street fighting, and individuals being hit, rescued, and the like. German vehicles on fire. Several German prisoners. Resistance fighters looking out windows of the Battle-scarred Hotel de Ville. Many scenes French exchanging fire with German snipers. More German prisoners.

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049502
Victims of Gestapo being taken out of their graves in Grenoble, France

Victims of Gestapo in Grenoble, France. Rows of coffins of the victims of Gestapo placed as relatives place flowers on them. Men continue to dig graves. Guards at the graveyard.

Date: 1944, August 27
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049517